CableLabsSpecification Engineering Change (EC) Form
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EC TRACKING INFORMATION (Blue fields to be completed by CableLabs only)
DOCSIS
N Identifier MULPIv3.1-N-14.1169-1
Status
CM-SP-MULPIV3.1-I03-140610
7/9/2014
Comment Period End Date 7/23/2014
SEVERITY
7/23/2014
Comment Period End Date 8/13/2014
Non-Critical
8/13/2014
114
Critical
Cert Wave No
Overall Type of Change (Tech/Edit/Both) Technical
Affected Specification
ECR Date
ECO Date
ECN Date
ECN Effective Date
Version
1
CHANGE TYPE
Minor
Major
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SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT DETAILS
Document EC is written against: CM-SP-MULPIv3.1 Issued Version # I03
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Primary Author
Email
Company
Additional Contributors
First Lisa Last Denney
lvdenney@broadcom.com
Broadcom Corporation
Title of EC
Date sent to CableLabs
Clarification of MULPI Section 7-9 Downstream MER Reporting
07/08/2014
Country
Phone
USA
678-475-3102
ENGINEERING CHANGE DOCUMENT DETAILS
EC REVISION HISTORY
Date of revised EC
Brief description of revision
DETAILED PROPOSED CHANGES
Sections Affected
REQs Affected
7.9.1; 7.9.2
No
Test Plans Affected
No
OTHER RELATED ENGINEERING CHANGES (LIST ALL THE APPLY)
The following EC(s) are recommended to be processed in conjunction with this document:
EC#
Title of EC
Affected Document
NOTE! IMPORTANT EC AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS:
For an ECR to advance to ECO status:
- Requirements Affected section of the embedded DOCSIS-SpecDetailChange.docx must be completed.
- If applicable, the embedded TestPlanDetailChanges.docx must be completed.
For an ECO to advance to ECN status:
- If applicable, compiled MIB files and final Schema docs must be attached before requested changes can
move to ECN status and noted as attachments in the table directly below.
DOCSIS_3.1_Spec-TestPlan_EC-Form_6-2014.docx
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In submitting the Engineering Change Request ("ECR"), the Author(s) [primary author, additional authors, and contributors], individually and as
an authorized representative of the Company, agrees that if CableLabs incorporates this ECR in whole or in part into the relevant Specification,
all intellectual property in the ECR shall be licensed royalty free, and without confidentiality, under the terms of the "Data Over Cable Service
Interface Specifications License Agreement" ("Contribution Agreement"). CableLabs may disclose the content of this ECR to CableLabs'
members and such others as is necessary for the development of CableLabs' specifications. Questions about the Authors' licensing of
intellectual property in this ECR submission may be directed to legal@cablelabs.com.
This Engineering Change has the following file(s) attached.
Type of Attachment(s) (Visio, Word, txt,
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM:
Clarifications to the ODS messaging for the following:
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Fragmenting top-level TLVs means there will be a single ODS-RSP with multiple fragments vs. several ODSRSP messages with different vector portions per message. The ODS messaging structure was updated for
fragmenting top-level TLVs, but section 7.9 was not updated for this and needs to be.
One of the original purposes of ODS was to help the CMTS with downstream profile selection for a CM.
Since that original concept, OPT was developed to actually test out prospective profiles. ODS is no longer
needed for CMs prior to registration. The CMTS will assign new CMs to profile A at registration and add
other profiles after testing with OPT. This Engineering Change removes support of ODS for a CM prior to
registration allowing the CM to be on-line quicker and avoid interaction problems between ODS and
registration.
CHANGE DETAILS FOR THE SPECIFICATION:
Complete Engineering Change details for the specification are contained in the following embedded file:
EChange_MULPIv3.1
-14.1169-1.docx
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Additional Instructions to EC Author
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DOCSIS_3.1_Spec-TestPlan_EC-Form_5-2014.docx
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In submitting the Engineering Change Request ("ECR"), the Author(s) [primary author, additional authors, and contributors], individually and as
an authorized representative of the Company, agrees that if CableLabs incorporates this ECR in whole or in part into the relevant Specification,
all intellectual property in the ECR shall be licensed royalty free, and without confidentiality, under the terms of the "Data Over Cable Service
Interface Specifications License Agreement" ("Contribution Agreement"). CableLabs may disclose the content of this ECR to CableLabs'
members and such others as is necessary for the development of CableLabs' specifications. Questions about the Authors' licensing of
intellectual property in this ECR submission may be directed to legal@cablelabs.com.